Pitch - initial film idea

Overview:
The feedback that i got from the audience was overall positive. For example they liked the idea of the film being a black comedy and most people think that it the my idea behind the colour costume, separating the different cliques was simple yet effective. Howvever there were some worries when I mentioned the idea of filming in the school corridors, due to other people being around and they may not fit in the scene. I will overcome this by filming after school and then there will be minimal people in the corridor, so we don't need to get all of those peoples connect to be in my film. 
  there were also concerns when it came to the funeral section. However i think that it would actually be more effective if there was simply 3/4 people surrounding the grave. This keeps the eyes on the grave and makes it more suspicious of why these girls are standing over this particular grave. Leaving narrative enigma for the audience with in the first few minutes. Wich will help me create the sense of wanting to watch more for the audience. Brining them in.

Filming Tyrannosaur swede

Wednesday re-shoot of Tyrannosaur

For each scene we had different roles. We had a director, producer (who also produced the call sheet), actors, cinematographers and people to created the story boards and the screenplays. This all came together whilst shooting. The story board and call sheet are created in the order we are going to film the scene in. For all three scenes the story board and call sheets didn't exactly match up due to ad-libbing and some semiotic changes.

First we shot the Bookies scene, where the protagonist comes out of the bookies drunk and looking for his dog 'Fido'.  We changed the name of the dog to Fido because we were shooting a swede and it was supposed to be a comic version. Working title version. We filmed the protagonist coming out of the door of the bookies. Instead of filming at the bookies we filmed outside the school swimming pool. We shot a long shot of the actors coming out of the door. Then had another camera on the actors which was a medium shot. So that we could choose the different shots and which would work better. We then shot 'William' killing the dog. Instead of filing the dog being kicked we filmed from a long shot and 'William' drop kicks the dog and the dog goes flying. We film the dog flying through the air with three different camera shots.

The second shoot that we re-filmed was the funeral scene. Before we filmed the scene in the 'Hobo-centre'. We found some difficulties with this scene due to lighting. The lighting of the scene was quite dark and we found it difficult to choose angle shots that flowed well and got all the actors in. However this time we worked outside. We filmed on grass. The scene was lit up well and we used an establishing shot to get a feel of what was happening. Then moved into a closer shot. Over peoples shoulders and behind the priest (Charles).

The final scene that we shot was the protagonist (William) running into the shop and hiding. In the film Tyrannosaur the protagonist runs into a charity shop and hides behind a clothing rack. Therefore we decided to film the scene in a  mac store. Because we work in a classroom full of macs this is where we set the final scene. We filmed William running in and jumped under the desk full of macs. We again had two cameras therefore when it comes to editing we have choices of cuts and edits. When William was running in we have shots of him running in and we using a low close shot, this was giving him a sense of power. Then the lady who comes up to hum offers him a bottle of champaign instead of a cup of tea. This is again showing us the swede side of our shoot.

ScreenPlay

Production Script 

Scaife Studios and Brightness Studios 
Bradford, Ilkley
Tel: 07825241194
Email: scaifestudios@gmail.com
Brightnessstudios@gmail.com

Opening: Ident - production Company and titles

Starts with extreme long shot of new house - sign outside "sold" introducing the new girl (protagonist).

(Moves inside house)

Extreme close ups of the females getting ready - don't see all detail E.g Faces

(Showing the contrasting between stereotypical and counter typical females at a high school)

Throughout we are showing the title through props E.g makeup on the mirror - lipstick and cereal.

Film girls walking around the house and out the front door - learns they are neighbours - long shot can see their full body - comparison

Male walks past shouting "hey" at the stereotypical female, the counter typical then thinks he's waving at her - disheartened 

tyrannosaur Shot two

We have already shot the introduction to the film tyrannosaur, we need to reshoot some of the scenes:

• Thee killing of the dog
• entering to the apple store
• Dog race 
• Come up with ending to cupboard scene - 'sir please come out otherwise i will have to call the police'. Walk out of shop together 'do you want to get a drink?'.

We need to re-film these shoots because at the moment some of them are not working very well. At the moment the killing of the dog is not working because we were using a paper dog. We found that it was difficult to film the physical killing.

Presentaion

Idea-
PLOT
typical horror/black comedy - American
Typical cliques
popular
indie
intellectual
goths - dark makeup
new girl comes doesn't know which clique to fit into to
goes to the popular girls
fits in well slowly ends up having to kill them - 7 days each whenever she decides to kills them - making her way to the top
the girl popular clique will be wearing pink
Everything extremely stereotypical

INTRO
Few titles because will take away from the effects
Beginning two minutes bright colours - colour scheme will be pastels to contrast the blacks and reds by the end.
Dark background with a pink title - not quite horror but a dark comedy. Pink represents female clique.
Camera flashes in the intro everything happens fast
Non-diegetic music movinjg into diegetic - bringing the audience in summer 68 - pink floyd
shots of each clique, no shots of the school setting narrative enigma of where it is set.

Ideas from
Heathers
Jennifer's body
Pretty in pink

Both are dark comedy's with social cliques being represented.
Heathers - Gets a loner boyfriend makes friends with the 'heathers' gets used kills them off one by one
Jennifer's body - becomes a demon and ends up killing all the males in her social eye.
Pretty in pink - the first shot where you see the popular boy and the Molly Ringwald making eye contact you can feel the connection but then the Blondie girl comes and jumps on him - sowing the social cliques without showing the school - narrative enigma and showing how the American cliques don't mix.

not judge a book by its cover

Funeral then the typical girl group crossing off her death - get the idea thats the end of the opening

Warp And Conventions - York 2015

We went to the Film Festival in york and went to presentations about Warp by Barry Ryan and Cinematography.

Warp
The presentation was presented by the managing director of Warp Productions, Barry Ryan. He told us about the different ways of producing and filming TV and Film. As we know Warp Productions filmed the film This Is England in 2005. The film then continued into TV. When Warp crossed over the line between Film and TV he mentioned that the technology is mainly the same, but a while ago people such as Warner Bros. were concerned if the two technologies were similar. Warner Bros were concerned when David wanted his own cast to work along side him, who had previously worked on TV. He also mentioned that creative control is another reason why there is minimal crossing into TV and Film. Both of the This Is England were Shane Meadows. However in TV it's mainly the same but you have to make the show around a certain time (52 minutes) and fit in advertisement breaks. Shae had far less creative control whilst filming.

 This Is England - Film

• Budget - £2.2M
• 18 Weeks to Edit
• 6 Weeks to Film

 This Is England - TV '86

• Budget - £2.6M
• 18 Weeks to Edit
• 6+ Weeks to Film

Warp productions went to channel four to get money and they were offered 500k, this wasn't enough so they looked at where This Is England was popular (Australia and Indonesia). So they went to MadMan Releasing (Australia) and Non-Stop  (Indonesia). In which they got enough to produce This Is England '86.

Cinematography

• On a typical set there will be one wide, one medium and one small camera.
• Film making is a collaboration, everyone has a job
• Film is still used a lot today, Spielberg still uses film
• Breaking the code - generally you never film a woman on a 16mm because they will look distorted, always a 35mm.
• Scripts important to make a smooth good film.
• Film as much as you can - experience is key Ianthe industry
•  The cinema is still important - want to feel the reaction of others around you, better than on netflix on your own, need to keep people coming to the cinema.
• Fuji film is good - ran technicolour out of business,

Convergence
Media Convergence-

• The Three C's: Computing, Communications and content.
• Combinations of Information Technology and Telecommunications network companies.

Two Primary Levels-

• Technologies: Creative Content has been converted to industry standard digital forms of delivery, through broadband or Wi-Fi.
• To be shown on TV, Phones, Computers and digital voice recorders hooked up to TVs.
• Industries: Companies cross the business spectrum from media to telecommunications to technology. These ca merge and become a new business all together.

Technological Convergence-

• Different technological systems to evolve and combine towards performing similar tasks.
• Previously separate technologies, that now share resources and interact with each other. Creating new efficiencies.

VodCast - Typical Conventions

This is my Vodcast on typical conventions of films.


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• Wish you were is a key film that i used as examples throughout the vodcast.
• i also used le donk scores.
• I learned how to add titles to the bottom of the vodcast adding extra information
• i also learned how to do a voice over and edit the diegetic music in the film shots that i used.

how to change the format of a video

Type in SafeNet and insert a link into the bar. Then open VLC and insert the link.

You can use HandBreak. This is method where you enter the link of the film clip to change the format enabling you to putt it into FinalCut Pro.

Influential films for my idea

Jennifer's Body 2009

Box Office: $31.6 million

Directed by: Karyn Kusama

Production company: Fox Atomic
Distributed: 20th Century Fox
Black Comedy, Supernatural
About a typical high school girl who meets a band and gets turned into a demon and kills boys.






Heathers 1989



Box Office: $1.1 million

Directed by: Micheal Lehmann

Production company: Cinimarque Entertainment 
Distributed: New World Pictures
Black Comedy
Set in Ohio State High school, based around cliques in high school and drop of girls all called heathers.




Both films are set in what seems to be the typical american high school. In the beginning of Jennifers body we are introduced to Jennifer, the main girl of the school. In Heathers we are also introduced to what seems like the typical group of girls in an american teen film. The three girls are sitting in a garden surrounded by a fence. Everything seems to be happy and upper class. However the girls then stand up and walk on the flowers in sinc. This gives us feel not everything is so perfect and 'american'.
   We also get a sense that something is no quite right in Jennifers body. Because everything is perfect for Jennifer, she has the friend, she has all the boys she wants. But when she goes out and gets invited out with the band she is so fond of we feel that something bad is going to happen.
  What attracts me to both of these films that i want to involve in my initial ideas, are that it is set in a  typical high school and everything seems normal but we can never judge a book by a cover. The kindest of people can trick you by appearances.   A black comedy (or dark comedy) is a comic work that employs farce and morbid humour, which, in its simplest form, is humour that makes light of subject matter usually considered taboo. Black humour corresponds to the earlier concept of gallows humour. Black comedy is often controversial due to its subject matter.